Subject to the approval of the bankruptcy court, the results of the auction of
more of the assets of defunct publisher THQ
have been revealed besides word from
earlier that Gearbox now owns Homeworld. In this we learn that Gearbox
paid $1.35 million for the RTS series, Nordic games paid almost $5 million for
several IP, including Darksiders, Red Faction, and Supreme
Commander, and someone wanted the Drawn to Life franchise:

Kristian Joensen wrote on Apr 23, 2013, 03:45:Nordic Games has been an excellent publisher so far, supporting GOG(source), Linux(source), mod tools(source) and the like. They are basically the anti-Gearbox. They were the retail publisher for the Alan Wake games on PC. TLDR version: Gearbox does (almost) everything wrong, Nordic Games does (almost) everything right.

Oh, okay. We'll see how it goes then.

Creston

Speaking of jowood and gog, I forgot they added silent storm there - I need to grab that.

Kristian Joensen wrote on Apr 23, 2013, 03:45:Nordic Games has been an excellent publisher so far, supporting GOG(source), Linux(source), mod tools(source) and the like. They are basically the anti-Gearbox. They were the retail publisher for the Alan Wake games on PC. TLDR version: Gearbox does (almost) everything wrong, Nordic Games does (almost) everything right.

entr0py wrote on Apr 22, 2013, 21:12:Still, I guess there's some dim hope that they could make a faithful sequel. The price seems to be a good sign that they'll actually use the IP.

I'd be super happy with a straight up Homeworld HD / widescreen re-release just keep everything else the same; re-render the graphical assets to get rid of blockiness and jagged edges, unlock the camera and FOV to support wider displays, and sell those revamped classics for $20 a pop on Steam and GOG.

Nordic Games has been an excellent publisher so far, supporting GOG(source), Linux(source), mod tools(source) and the like. They are basically the anti-Gearbox. They were the retail publisher for the Alan Wake games on PC. TLDR version: Gearbox does (almost) everything wrong, Nordic Games does (almost) everything right.

It's true that Nordic has been a better publisher than Jowood thus far. We'll have to see how polished Deadfall is before declaring them redeemed.

In any case, I highly doubt they'll do anything with these IPs. They simply lack the money to fund original AAA games. I suspect they just bought the IPs so they could milk sales of the existing games and possibly resell the rights at a profit if interest ever peaks.

Cutter wrote on Apr 22, 2013, 21:51:RFG was lame. Just going to site after site and destroying the same shit. Would have been way better if it had remotely been anything close to as good as GTA.

And what was it those yoyos on KS thought they could get the IP for? 50k? Lulz!

Eh it needed about 25% more variety to be a solid game. Destroying shit in new and creative ways and watching the AI go apeshit over farting and then trying to get out of it was a lot of fun, but the game needed a little more. Plus, after the first area or two, it stopped feeling like Mars and got boring.

I'll still play it any day over the atrocity that was Red Faction Armageddon.

I can't imagine why Gearbox would want Homeworld. It's a game in a genre that's completely outside any wheelhouse of theirs. I mean, they paid so little that they could probably turn a profit on their investment by just repacking the original games and selling them on GOG. I imagine a crappy, touch-based iPad version is coming too.

My dream scenario for this is that Gearbox is trying to get away from AAA a bit and trying to become a kind of mini publisher of smaller projects, meaning that their plan is to give Homeworld 3 to a developer who knows how to make this kind of thing. I don't see how them doing it can work out well. But yeah, between their spotty track record and especially Duke Nukem Forever and the Aliens scandal, I would rather several large publishers end up with this before Gearbox.